Updating and upgrading

MidWestOne Bank adding conveniences to historic downtown headquarters and building new branch

11:18 PM,
Dec. 14, 2013

An architect's rendering shows the new MidWestOne home loan building set to open in March 2015 at the corner of East Harrison and South Clinton streets in Iowa City. Excavation work is complete at the site near the Iowa City Post Office and former Sabin School.

Written by

Josh O?Leary
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Growing businesses often are faced with a decision between upgrading their existing facilities or building anew.

For MidWestOne Bank, which is headquartered in downtown Iowa City, the answer this year has been to do both.

The bank is in the midst of renovating its historic six-story, century-old building at 102 S. Clinton St. - a local landmark long known by the bank's former name, the Iowa State Bank and Trust Building. ...